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1 The Impact of NREGS on Urbanization in India Shamika Ravi, Mudit Kapoor and Rahul Ahluwalia August 9, 2012 Abstract This paper tests the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on (1) rural-urban migration; (2) urban unemployment and (3) Inequality in India. We use the simple Harris-Todaro framework to analyze the labor market outcomes of this policy intervention. We use district level data from two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSSO) to compare districts where the NREGS was launched with nearby districts, over time. Our main results show that the NREGS has signicantly reduced rural to urban migration in India by 27.9 percent and has reduced urban unemployment by 38.7 percent. Our results on inequality are ambiguous. We have further disaggregated the data to study heterogeneity of results. Analyzing causes of migration shows that employment related migration reduced by 58.5 percent; marriage related migration fell by 33.6 percent and as expected, study related migration was unaected by the job scheme. Disaggregating by education level reveals that NREGS reduced rural-urban migration of illiterate households by 32 percent. Literate households were unaected by this labor market scheme which guarantees unskilled employment at a minimum rural wage. Further decomposition across dierent sectors of the economy reaveals that NREGS reduced rural to urban migration into services sector by 26 percent while migration into manufacturing sector was unaected. Preliminary draft Assistant Professor of Economics, Indian School of Business, corresponding author; shamika_ravi@isb.edu Assistant Professor of Economics, Indian School of Business 1

2 1 Introduction Internal migration or what is commonly called rural-urban migration, plays a central role in the urbanization process of most developing economies. It accounted for 52 percent of all urban growth in Africa in 1960s and 1970s and approximately 25 percent in the 1980s and 1990s (Brockerho 1995). 30 percent of all urban growth in India during 1990s was due to rural-urban migration (Census, Government of India, 2005). Over the last 2 decades, a rich literature has evolved focusing on very specic aspects of rural-urban migration, yet some basic questions remain unanswered. To what extent can government policies inuence rural-urban migration and whether this can aect urban unemployment and inequality. Our paper provides answers to these questions. We provide economic analysis of a labor market policy using the Harris-Todaro model. The Harris-Todaro (1970) model has been the workhorse for analyzing labor market policies in dualistic labor market economies. Many aspects of the model have been studied including unemployment, development policies, tax and transfer policies. 1 One aspect that has not yet been explored, however, is the implication of labor market intervention within this model. We are able to do so and test the predictions of the model within the Indian labor market context. The contribution of this paper to the literature is that we test the predictions of the Harris-Todaro model using a rural labor market intervention. More specically, we test the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on (1) rural-urban migration; (2) urban unemployment and (3) Inequality as measured by changes in Gini coecient and changes in relative urban-rural wages. We analyze the labor market outcomes of this policy intervention. We do not, however, look at the broader welfare implications. In 2006, the Government of India launched the massive NREGS whereby every rural household is guaranteed 100 days of unskilled wage employment at guaranteed minimum wages. We study the impact of this scheme on rural-urban migration, urban unemployment and inequality. We analyze district level data from two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSSO) to compare districts where the NREGS was launched with nearby districts, over time. Our main results show that the 1 Todaro and Smith, 2003, provides a good overview of the literature. 2

3 NREGS has signicantly reduced rural to urban migration in India by 27.9 percent and has reduced urban unemployment by 38.7 percent. Our results on inequality are ambiguous. We have further disaggregated the data to study heterogeneity of eects. Analyzing data on the cause of migration shows that employment related migration has reduced by 58.5 percent as against marriage related migration which has fallen by 33.6 percent. Disaggregating by education level reveals that NREGS has signicantly reduced rural-urban migration of illiterate households by 32 percent. Literate households are unaected by this labor market scheme which guarantees unskilled employment. The NREGS was launched in multiple phases beginning in In the rst phase, NREGS was implemented in 200 districts in It was subsequently expanded to all 618 rural districts in For our analysis, we use NSSO data from round 55 (July 1999 to June 2000) and round 64 (July 2007 to June 2008). These two rounds cover the time periods before and after the implementation of the NREGS. This allows us to use the data from the two rounds for a dierence-in-dierence analysis to evaluate the impact of the program on relevant outcomes. Existing literature focuses on very specic aspects of rural-urban migration. There are studies to show that potential migrants invest in education before migrating, anticipating better rewards for human capital in the urban sector (Kochar, 2004); they also gather information about jobs from migrant networks (Roberts, 2001). Katz and Stark (1986) show that labor migrates to generate remittances to overcome credit constraints to nance rural investments. There are some studies that have explored the exact process of migration and show that migration is facilitated by the concentration on the migrant pool of same origin in the areas of destination(mora and Taylor, 2005) while others have shown that nding a job is facilitated when same origin network is larger but this could also lead to congestion if they compete for jobs (Yamauchi and Tanabe, 2003). In a dynamic context, education enhances migrant's learning in the job market and accelerates the convergence of migrants earnings to native earnings (Yamauchi, 2004). There is also signicant literature which focuses on remittances generated from rural-urban migration. They are used to invest in one's parents to secure potential bequests (De la Briere et. al., 2002); to insure family against volatile income (Gubert, 2002); to repay loans (Ilahi and Jafarey, 1999); for consumption (Banerjee, 1984); housing when anticipating return migration (Osili, 2004) as well as capital expenditure (Lucas and 3

4 Stark 1985). This paper answers some basic questions about rural-urban migration. Can government interventions in the rural labor market inuence rural-urban migration ows? To what extend can such an intervention aect urban unemployment and inequality in the economy? In answering these basic questions, we contribute to the literature and understanding of the process of urbanization in developing economies. We use the simple Harris-Todaro framework to structure our analysis and test the policy implications. The paper is structured in the following manner: section 2 outlines the simple Harris-Todaro model and derives the policy recommendations from this model; section 3 describes the empirical strategy used for the analysis; section 4 describes the data and section 5 has the results. Section 6 is the conclusion. 2 The Model In the simple Harris-Todaro (1970) model there are two sectors in the economy, the agricultural or rural sector (R) and the modern sector (M). The modern sector wage (W M ) is set above the real wage in the rural sector (W R ). There are a total of L workers who allocate themselves between the two search strategies to maximize expected earnings. Urban search strategy produces a modern sector job paying W M with probability p; and with probability (1 p), he remains unemployed with a wage 0. So the expected urban sector wage is such that E(W U ) = W M p Employment in the modern sector, E M,depends negatively on modern sector wage through a regular downward sloping labor demand curve E M = e(w M p); e < 0 Jobs in the modern sector are lled randomly. Each member of urban labor force L M have the 4

5 same chance of employment. That is, p = E M LM and L M is determined endogenously from equilibrium condition. Rather than pursuing an urban job search, a worker has the alternative to instead adopt a rural job search, such that E(W R ) = W R In this model, workers continue to migrate from rural to urban sector, despite the existence of urban unemployment as long as E(W U ) > E(W R ) From the above simple model, we get the powerful prediction of the Harris Todaro model. Urban unemployment will exist even in equilibrium when the expected wages across the two sectors equalize, that is E(W U ) = E(W R ). Since W M > W R, it implies that the probability of getting a job in the urban sector p < 1. In equilibrium, E(W U ) = E(W R ) W M p = W R E M L M W M = W R And urban unemployment can be calculated as L M E M = W M W R E M E M = E M ( W M W R 1) The two policy recommendations from this are the following: 1. As long as the wages in the two sectors remain constant, any attempt to eliminate urban unemployment through urban job creation (raising E M ) would raise unemployment. This is termed as the Todaro Paradox. 2. Solution to urban unemployment is rural development or raising W R. 5

6 Further work extended the Harris-Todaro policy analysis from unemployment to labor market inequality. It was shown that inequality goes down with an increase in W R (Bhagwati and Srinivasan, 1974; Bourguignon, 1990; Temple, 1999 and Fields, 2005). In this paper, we test the two predictions of the HT model which are based on the recommendation of rural development. The NREGS in India raised the W R and guaranteed rural employment. 3 Empirical Strategy The empirical strategy that we employ to measure the eect of the NREGS on test the two predictions of the HT model based on changes in W R, is a dierence-in-dierence approach. Our empirical specication is Y it = α + β 1 dt + β 2 dy + δdt dy + X it γ + ɛ it where, Y it is the outcome of interest in district i at time t. It will be the log of total rural-urban migrants, the log of total urban unemployment and it will also be dierent measures of inequality. dt is the treatment group dummy variable which equals 1 if district i has NREGS implemented. dy is the year dummy which equals 0 for the baseline year and it equals 1 for endline year X it is a vector of district characteristics. The coecient of interest is δ and its OLS estimate measures the causal eect of NREGS on the outcomes of interest. ˆδ = (Y T Y C ) (Y T Y C ) 4 Data We use two rounds of the National Sample Survey Organization data in our analysis. The NSSO conducts annual household surveys of consumer expenditure and employment/unemployment status with relatively small `thin' sample sizes. It typically conducts large sample, `thick' all-india household surveys on employment and unemployment once every ve years. The 55th (July

7 June 2000) and 64th (July June 2008) were thick rounds of the NSS that also collected migration particulars from the households that were interviewed. These particulars included information on whether members of the household had changed their usual place of residence, the location of their last place of residence, their reason for migrating etc. The 55th and 64th NSS rounds cover the time periods before and after the implementation of NREGA. This allows us to use the data collected during the two rounds for a dierence-in-dierence analysis of the impact of the program on migration. The NSS uses a recall based interview method for data collection from a sample of randomly selected households. In the 64th round, 125,578 households were surveyed 79,091 in rural areas and 46, 487 in urban areas. In the 55th round, 165,244 households were surveyed with 97,986 rural households and 67,258 urban ones. The large sample size enables us to construct district level estimates of migration. To ensure representative samples, we restrict our analysis to those districts where the NSS data allows us to create estimates with p-values less than The districts included in our main results cover over 75% of the total rural population. We also use district level socio-economic data from various government agencies, including the Central Statistical Oce (CSO) and the Reserve Bank of India. The district level GDP is derived using two measures - a `district index' for each of the sectors of the economy and the state level GDP reported by the CSO. The district index is computed separately for each sector based on production data released by the concerned department Ministry of agriculture, Indian bureau of mines, etc. The index is then used in conjunction with the state level GDP computed by the CSO to arrive at district level GDP data. Other variables like literacy rate are compiled from various government sources. This district level data is available for for the pre-treatment period, and for for the post-treatment. It allows us to control for factors like the proportion of primary and secondary sectors in the district, the district's GDP per capita, and its growth rate. 7

8 5 National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme of India Agriculture absorbs 52 percent of India's labor force but contributes less then one fth to the country's GDP. Although recent growth rates of the sector compared favorably to its performance in the past, the average GDP growth per worker of 2.2 percent between 1994 and 2005 clearly lagged behind the economy-wide 4.4 percent in the same period (Planning Commission 2008b). Against this background, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guaranteed Act (NREGA) in 2005 and the scheme was launched in February 2006 in 200 districts across the country. As per the NREGA, each rural household is entitled to 100 days of unskilled employment per year at a guaranteed minimum wage. Within the Indian rural labor market context, the NREGS is also viewed as an eective minimum wage legislation. The scheme was subsequently expanded and by , when the 64th round of the NSSO survey was conducted, the NREGS had been rolled out in 271 districts of the country. By , it included all of India's 618 rural districts. Common assignments include small scale road construction, water supply works, ood protection, irrigation infrastructure, land development and reforestation projects. By April , our endline year, 33.7 million households or every fourth rural Indian household worked under the NREGS. InsertT able1 6 Rural-Urban Migration in India This section will present an overview of the evolution of internal migration in India between 1999 and 2008, a period characterized by rapid economic growth and urbanization. The total number of migrants increased by 18 percent from 245 million to 288 million. In the same time period, the population of the country is estimated to have gone up by 10 percent, increasing the migrant population from 27 percent to 29 percent. Disaggregating data further in Table 2 shows that the dominant form of migration in both rounds of NSSO survey is within the same state, accounting for approximately 88 percent of total migrants. And if we disaggregate even further, we note that 8

9 62 percent of the total within state migration involves migration within the same districts. A district in India is the basic administrative unit with an average size of 4300 sq. kilometers. Our unit of analysis is a district and therefore the exact rural-urban migration that we will study are those which are within the same district and which account for a signicant 54.5 percent of total rural-urban migration in India. InsertT able2 Next, we would like to understand the relationship between urbanization and rural-urban migration at the district level. As gure 1 shows there has been a steady increase in the urban population relative to rural population from 1970s onwards indicating a growing trend of urbanization. As of 2011, 45 percent of Indian population resides in urban areas. This period has also witnessed a rapid growth in the rural-urban migration ows. InsertF igure1 In order to understand the context of migration, it is important to highlight the reasons why people migrate. As Table 3 shows there are essentially three dominant reasons that households report for migration. These are employment, marriage and for education purposes. While half the population of male migrants report employment as a leading cause, 89 percent of females report marriage as the leading cause of migration. InsertT able3 Skill is an important driver of migration. Existing literature reports that both high and low skilled individual are more likely to migrate but for dierent reasons. While surplus low skilled labor migrate in search of manual jobs which they may not nd in rural areas; the scarce high skilled labor migrate for better rewards on their human capital (Lanzona, 1998 and Agesa, 2001). Our data shows, in Table 4, that while 50 percent of all rural-urban migrants in India are illiterate, nearly 13 percent have attained more than high school education and 25 percent have some basic 9

10 primary school education. InsertT able4 Studying the age of migrants reveals a trend which is seen in most developing countries. Ruralurban migrants are predominantly in the working age group of 16 years to 60 years. InsertT able5 7 Results To start, we compare the treatment and control districts in our sample, before and after the NREGS was implemented. The summary statistics of the variables that we use in the analysis are presented in Table 6. NREGS was implemented in the poorest 200 districts of India. It is, therefore, not surprising that treatment districts are predominantly rural with lower literacy rates, lower GDP per capita and lower road coverage. But all these variables show a similar trend over the time period in our study. In terms of the sample size, 271 districts had implemented the NREGS at the time of our endline, NSSO 64th round survey. Control group sample comprises of 235 neighboring districts. InsertT able6 7.1 Eect of NREGS on rural-urban migration The rst set of major results are reported in Table 7. The rst row shows the coecient ˆδ from the dierence-in-dierence analysis based on the outline specication. The district characteristics that we control for are the district GDP, proportion of agriculture sector in the district GDP, the proportion of secondary sector in the district GDP, district population, the literacy rate and road coverage. The standard errors are clustered at the district level. Column 1 reports the eects of 10

11 NREGS on log of total migrant population. The results show that NREGS reduced total rural to urban migration by 27.9 percent and it is statistically signicant. The next three columns disaggregated this average result for dierent types of migration based on the stated purpose for migration. The second column reports the results for employment related migration. This results shows that NREGS has lead to a massive reduction of 58.5 percent in the total employment related rural to urban migration in India. This is a big eect but not along unexpected lines. With guaranteed employment at an improved minimum rural wage, migration to cities for employment is expected to come down. The third column reports eect of the NREGS on rural to urban migration for marriage. This has also signicantly reduced by 33.6 percent. This result too is along expected lines as marriage related migration follows employment related migration. If potential male migrants are staying back in rural areas because they are assured employment at improved minimum wages, the wives are also staying back in the rural areas. The last column reports eects of NREGS on rural to urban migration related to education. As expected, this is not impacted by the rural employment scheme. InsertT able7 7.2 Eect of NREGS on wages The next set of results that we wanted to explore was the impact of the NREGS on rural and urban wages. NSSO data reveals that from 2006 to 2012, rural wages in India have increased by approximately 27 percent. The wages for NREGS are set by state governments and there have been constant upward adjustments over the years. But what we would like to explore in our data is the extent to which rural and urban wages were aected by NREGS, a year after it was implemented. Based on the same empirical specication that we have followed so far, Table 8 reports the results on log of mean rural wages and log of mean urban wages. As is expected, while NREGS signicantly raised the rural wages by 7 percent, urban wages were not aected by this scheme. Since our endline data is just a year after the scheme was implemented, the magnitude of the eect is modest and not surprising. 11

12 InsertT able8 7.3 Eect of NREGS on urban unemployment The second major results of our paper is based on the eect of the NREGS on urban unemployment. Table 9 reports these results which are estimates from the same empirical specication. The rst column of Table 10 shows eects on log of total urban unemployment and the second column shows results for log of total urban underemployment. NREGS signicantly reduces urban unemployment by 38.7 percent and urban underemployment by 1.6 percent. These results are consistent with the HT model predict InsertT able9 7.4 Heterogeneity of results Though the average rural to urban migration comes down by 27.9 percent due to the NREGS, we want to further explore the heterogeneity in the results. The heterogeneity that we explore is based on education level which is a proxy for skill. As Table 11 reports, NREGS only aects rural to urban migration of unskilled or illiterate migrant population. This is expected as NREGS guarantees unskilled employment at a minimum wage. The decision to migrate for the population with some degree of skill or education, is not aected by this job scheme. InsertT able10 We have also disaggregated the eect of NREGS across dierent sectors of the economy. Table 9 shows the result for services sector and the manufacturing sector for each district. As would be expected NREGS reduced migration into the services sector by 26 percent. Migration into manufacturing sector is unaected by the job scheme. This is perhaps because manufacturing 12

13 sector attracts skilled labor force form the rural areas which are unaected by the NREGS. InsertT able Eect of NREGS on inequality We study the eect of the NREGS on dierent measures of inequality, using the same specication as the earlier analysis. The two inequality measures that we use for this are changes in the Gini coecient and changes in the relative rural and urban wages or W M W R. Our results are ambiguous and still UNDER PROGRESS. More generally, however, we see in Figure 2 which has the Lorenz curves for the baseline and endline years that inequality has reduced over time. InsertF igure2 8 Conclusion This paper tests the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on (1) rural-urban migration; (2) urban unemployment and (3) Inequality in India. We use the simple Harris-Todaro framework to analyze the labor market outcomes of this policy intervention. We use district level data from two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSSO) to compare districts where the NREGS was launched with nearby districts, over time. Our main results show that the NREGS has signicantly reduced rural to urban migration in India by 27.9 percent and has reduced urban unemployment by 38.7 percent. Our results on inequality are ambiguous. We have further disaggregated the data to study heterogeneity of results. Analyzing data on causes of migration shows that employment related migration reduced by 58.5 percent as against marriage related migration which fell by 33.6 percent. Disaggregating by education level reveals that NREGS signicantly reduced rural-urban migration of illiterate households by 32 percent. Literate households were unaected by this labor market scheme which guarantees unskilled employment and minimum rural wage. 13

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15 [12] Lanzona, L. (1998) Migration, self-selection and earnings in Philippine rural communities, Journal of Development Economics, 56, 1, [13] Lucas, R. and O. Stark (1985) Motivations to Remit: Evidence from Botswana, Journal of Political Economy 93: Mora J. and J. Taylor (2005) Determinants of migration, destination, and sector choice: Disentangling individual, household, and community eects, in International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain, Ozden and Schi eds., the World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, [14] Osili, U. (2004) Migrants and housing investments: theory and evidence from Nigeria, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52, 4, [15] Roberts, K. (2001) The determinants of job choice by rural labor migrants in Shanghai,China Economic Review, 12, [16] Temple, J. (1999) Income Distribution in the Harris-Todaro Model, Ssrn Electronic Journal, working paper series. [17] Yamauchi, F. (2004) Are experience and schooling complementary? Evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor market, Journal of Development Economics, 74, [18] Yamauchi, F. and S. Tanabe (2003) Nonmarket networks among migrants: Evidence from Bangkok, Thailand, International Food Policy Research Institute, FCND Discussion Paper No

16 Table 1: Expansion of NREGS, 2006/07 to 2007/ * Total expenditures (million USD) Districts under the program Employed households (million) Working days (million) Average salary per day (USD) Completed work projects since the start of NREGA (million) Water catchment and conservation 72.1% 50.8% 28.5% - Rural connectivity 16.6% 26.4% 18.4% - Drought control, flood control, 4.9% 11.2% 22.4% irrigation - Land development 1.8% 6.9% 22.6% - Others 4.5% 4.7% 8.0% Notes: The figures for the year 2008/09 are estimates based on the information available by the end of December USD = 40 Rs. Data source: Employment and financial status reports, \cite{mrd2008b}. Table 2: Overall changes in migration in India Variable Total migrants 245,081, ,838,899 Within states 216,351, ,530,184 Across states 25,809,883 33,282,329 Within district 151,420, ,036,864

17 Figure 1: Rural Urban migration and Urban/Rural Population in India

18 Table 3: Reasons for Rural Urban Migration Employment related reason Studies Marriage Male Female Male Female Male Female UP Bihar Rajasthan MP Maharashtra Haryana Tamil Nadu Overall Rural migrants Urban migrants

19 Table 4: Proportion of migrants by the level of education from the states Not Literate Literate but below primary Primary and Middle Secondary and higher secondary Graduate and above UP Bihar Rajasthan MP Maharashtra Haryana Tamil Nadu Migrant All Migrant All Migrant All Migrant All Migrant All Migrant All Migrant All Overall Migrant All Rural migrants Urban Migrants

20 Table 5: Proportion of different ages among migrants < >60 Within state migrants Outside state migrants All migrants Within district migrants Table 6: Summary statistics across treatment and control districts before and after NREGS Pre-intervention ( ) Post intervention ( ) Control Treatment Control Treatment Number of districts Average migrants Average migrants employment related Primary sector share of GDP Population Literacy rate GDP per capita (constant prices) Road coverage

21 VARIABLES Table 7: Effect of NREGS on rural urban migration in India Log of total migrants Log of migration for employment related reasons Log of migration for marriage related reasons Log of migration for studies related reasons Interaction term between NREGA and ** ** ** (0.136) (0.264) (0.139) (0.600) Proportion of primary sector in the GDP *** *** *** (0.315) (0.589) (0.332) (1.017) Proportion of secondary sector in the GDP *** *** *** (0.424) (0.816) (0.457) (1.443) Log of per capita GDP(Constant Prices) 0.225** 0.736*** (0.0975) (0.187) (0.107) (0.310) Compound Annual Growth Rate(Constant Prices) ** (0.0121) (0.0236) (0.0124) (0.0409) Dummy Variable for (0.109) (0.171) (0.106) (0.290) Dummy Variable for NREGA implementation *** (0.0999) (0.191) (0.104) (0.481) Constant 8.469*** *** 5.658* (0.996) (1.919) (1.086) (3.211) Observations Adjusted R-squared Standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1; standard errors are clustered at the district level

22 Table 8: Effect of NREGS on wages in India VARIABLES (1) (2) (3) Log of mean urban wages Log of mean rural wages Log of mean wages for rural-urban migrants Interaction term between NREGA and ** (0.0318) (0.0519) (0.118) Proportion of primary sector in the GDP *** *** (0.0766) (0.121) (0.305) Proportion of secondary sector in the GDP (0.101) (0.154) (0.352) Log of per capita GDP(Constant Prices) *** *** (0.0237) (0.0363) (0.0914) Compound Annual Growth Rate(Constant Prices) 2.69e * ( ) ( ) (0.0110) Dummy Variable for NREGA implementation *** (0.0253) (0.0418) (0.0863) Dummy Variable for *** 0.362*** 0.377*** (0.0244) (0.0389) (0.0872) Constant 4.337*** 4.504*** 5.100*** (0.231) (0.362) (0.941) Observations Adjusted R-squared Standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1; standard errors clustered at district level

23 Table 9: Effect of NREGS on urban unemployment VARIABLES Log Urban unemployed Log Urban underemployed Interaction term between NREGA and 2008 Proportion of primary sector in the GDP Proportion of secondary sector in the GDP Log of per capita GDP(Constant Prices) ** (0.181) *** (0.436) (0.583) 0.753*** (0.132) * (0.0100) ** (0.0245) (0.0316) ( ) Compound Real Annual Growth Rate (0.0166) ( ) Dummy for NREGA implementation (0.138) ( ) Dummy Variable for *** (0.136) ( ) Constant (1.382) (0.0739) Observations Adjusted R-squared Standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1; standard errors clustered at district level

24 Table 10: Heterogeneous effect of the NREGS on rural urban migration by skill levels VARIABLES Interaction term between NREGA and 2008 Proportion of primary sector in the GDP Proportion of secondary sector in the GDP Log of per capita GDP(Constant Prices) Compound Annual Growth Rate(Constant Prices) Dummy Variable for NREGA implementation (1) (2) (3) Log of not literate Log of primary-middle Log of secondary and migrants school level migrants above migrants ** (0.159) (0.143) (0.174) *** *** *** (0.381) (0.340) (0.422) ** *** *** (0.536) (0.452) (0.537) 0.283** 0.341*** (0.123) (0.104) (0.126) ** * (0.0138) (0.0128) (0.0162) (0.118) (0.108) (0.130) Dummy Variable for *** (0.120) (0.106) (0.128) Constant 6.242*** 6.885*** 8.610*** (1.254) (1.074) (1.300) Observations Adjusted R-squared Standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1; standard errors clustered at district level

25 Table 11: Heterogeneous effect of NREGS on migration into different sectors VARIABLES Interaction term between NREGA and 2008 Proportion of primary sector in the GDP Proportion of secondary sector in the GDP (1) (2) Log of migrants working in services Log of migrants working in manufacturing ** (0.132) (0.375) *** (0.307) (0.846) *** (0.412) (1.100) Log of per capita GDP(Constant Prices) 0.244*** Compound Annual Growth Rate(Constant Prices) Dummy Variable for NREGA implementation (0.0940) (0.255) (0.0116) (0.0375) (0.106) (0.212) Dummy Variable for ** (0.0969) (0.260) Constant 8.221*** (0.966) (2.690) Observations Adjusted R-squared Standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1; standard errors clustered at district level

26 Figure 2: Lorenz Curve for baseline and endline years

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